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NHS admits thousands of smartcards have gone walkies

News More than 4,000 NHS smartcards used to access a range of electronic systems and applications have gone missing since they were introduced two and a half years ago. A Freedom of Information request by GP magazine Pulse found a total of 4,147...

Tags: nhs, access, lost, smartcards

[06 Feb 2008]

Introducing Smartcards for Wireless LAN Security

whitepaper On another hand, among token technologies, smartcards currently offer the best combination of flexibility, security, and cost among token technologies. Therefore it becomes difficult to speak about security without evoking smartcards.

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Enhancing WLAN Security by Introducing EAP-TLS Smartcards

whitepaper This paper presents the first implementation of EAP-TLS protocol in smartcards. The implementation and performance were performed using smartcards and Java Card technologies. Various researches have proposed multiple protocols within 802.11...

Tags: ssl - tls, protocol, protocols, smartcards

[25 Nov 2007]

Manchester City FC trials mobile tickets

News Manchester City Football Club has launched a trial with Orange to allow fans to use their mobiles to enter the stadium instead of producing a ticket, following a similar trial with wave-and-pay smartcards.

Tags: smartcard, nfc, football

[22 Oct 2007]

Rail passengers to get free on-board wi-fi

News National Express said it will also build a simpler "one-stop shop" website to highlight the cheapest tickets available, introduce smartcards by 2010, provide real-time travel updates to mobile phones and allow passengers to print tickets at home...

Tags: gner, national express, wi-fi

[14 Aug 2007]

Mobile rail ticketing 'on track in Midlands by 2012'

News The smartcard scheme will comply with the Itso (Integrated Transport Smartcards Organisation) standard set up to make smartcards universally useable across all public transport companies. UK public transport giant Go Ahead Group has pledged to have...

Tags: oyster, smartcard, mobile, transport

[02 Aug 2007]

ID management in the security spotlight

News The next stage is putting in strong authentication - smartcards or tokens," said Okin. Paul Simmonds, director of global information security at ICI, said the main problem facing organisations is deciding how to manage access of systems by people...

Tags: identity management, two-factor authentication, federated identity, id management

[30 Apr 2007]

Mobile Code as an Enabling Technology for Service-Oriented Smartcard Middleware

whitepaper Smartcards can be seen as service providing entities that implement a secure, tamper-proof storage and offer computational resources which make them ideally suited for a variety of tasks such as authentication, management of personal profiles, and...

Tags: middleware, smartcards, tasks, scheme

[14 Mar 2007]

Gates: Security challenges to grow despite Vista

News Gates said: "We think this is the milestone where enterprises should start the migration from passwords to smartcards. Only last week, Microsoft released Windows Vista and Office 2007, promoted as the most secure versions of the operating system...

Tags: windows vista, microsoft vista, vista, security

[07 Feb 2007]

Birmingham Airport launches biometric security

News In related news, more than 90 per cent of UK consumers have voiced their support for biometrics - and said they want banks, credit card companies, health providers and government bodies to adopt biometric technologies to verify personal identities...

Tags: airports, passport, biometrics, airport

[06 Feb 2007]

NHS: 'No risk over smartcard sharing'

News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has admitted smartcards were shared between staff at a Warwickshire hospital but denied that this compromised the confidentiality of patient data. Reports emerged recently that smartcards - used by clinical staff to...

Tags: nhs cfh, smartcards, smartcard

[05 Feb 2007]

Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID

News Around 20,000 of the smartcards have been issued to mainly season ticket holders and club members and contain data on matches each cardholder has paid for. Fulham FC has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcards to fans to cut queues at the...

Tags: rfid

[30 Nov 2006]

Toward SSL Integration in SIM SmartCards

whitepaper The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) specifications introduce the 03.48 standard to allow the OTA (On-The-Air) platform to securely communicate with SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards.

Tags: ssl - tls, sim, ota, layer

[28 Nov 2006]

Smart Ticketing for Mass Transit: The New Global Opportunity Created by Low-Cost, Contactless Ticketing

whitepaper For smartcards to deliver their promise of seamless travel, reduced operating costs and improved information and planning, the transport industry needs smartcard solutions that can be rolled out economically and in a way that meets agreed...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, ticketing, developments, international

[15 Nov 2006]

Photos: RFID tickets track football fans

Photo London-based Premiership football club Fulham has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcards to fans, following a successful trial of the technology at a pre-season friendly game against Portuguese club Boavista this summer.

Tags: fulham fc

[15 Nov 2006]

Football club tags fans with RFID tickets

News Around 20,000 of the RFID-enabled smartcards have been issued to season-ticket holders and club members. McGrory said Fulham will also be trialling the RFID smartcards for e-cash purchases for the shops at the stadium, as well as a possible tie-up...

Tags: fulham fc, rfid

[15 Nov 2006]

Patients can "opt-out" of NHS IT system

News Warner said all patients will be able to see what is held on their summary care record and added that access to the data will be strictly controlled by smartcards, with an audit trail of who has accessed them and alerts if unauthorised people try...

Tags: nhs cfh, nhs it, nhs

[30 Oct 2006]

Shops 'must tell consumers how to disable RFID tags'

News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published a guidance for enterprises setting out how they must deal with individuals' data when it becomes linked to RFID tags - whether they're found attached to goods in a supermarket or on...

Tags: rfid

[27 Sep 2006]

Securing E-Mails With S/MIME and Smartcards in Exchange 2003

whitepaper This paper will give a high level overview of the necessary steps to secure E-Mails with Outlook 2003 and Smartcards. The paper will explain how to implement secure e-mail messaging with Outlook 2003 and smartcards for the Exchange 2003 users.

Tags: smart cards, stored, mail, outlook

[20 Sep 2006]

'The big IAM' tops security chiefs' shopping lists

News Speaking about an integrated smartcard to authenticate digital and physical access to a building, he said: "Give users smartcards and eliminate the risk of them leaving it in the keyboard by requiring them to use it to get out of the building.

Tags: federated identity, federation, federated, id

[19 Sep 2006]

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